Kerith Spencer Shapiro

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Join me over at #insighttimer for a 14-day Mindfully Jewish New Year’s challenge. 14 days. 90 seconds of mindfulness per day.
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The Essence of Joseph - Cantor Kerith Spencer-Shapiro - December 19, 2024 - Wilshire POV This week we begin the Joseph saga in our Torah. Chanukah may seem like an unlikely time to think about forgiveness. The author, Stephen Mitchell, associates Joseph’s journey and character with the qu...

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The Essence of Joseph - Cantor Kerith Spencer-Shapiro - December 19, 2024 - Wilshire POV This week we begin the Joseph saga in our Torah. Chanukah may seem like an unlikely time to think about forgiveness. The author, Stephen Mitchell, associates Joseph’s journey and character with the qu...

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The Essence of Joseph - Cantor Kerith Spencer-Shapiro - December 19, 2024 - Wilshire POV This week we begin the Joseph saga in our Torah. Chanukah may seem like an unlikely time to think about forgiveness. The author, Stephen Mitchell, associates Joseph’s journey and character with the qu...

What is Joseph’s core attribute? Forgiveness…
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Thank you for introducing yourself! I am looking forward to learning from you as well. 🧿🪬🧿

"When my cares multiply within me, Your comfort soothes my soul." (Psalm 94:19)
Midweek can feel overwhelming, but Wednesday's Psalm 94 reminds us that even in the chaos, comfort is near. Pause today to breathe, reflect, and find moments that soothe your soul.

I dreamt of dung beetles Jacob got dreams of angels going up and down a ladder. But I get dung beetles.

A drash/vort I shared at Beit Kohenet Kabbalat Shabbat services on 12/5/2025

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Hi Dee. I’m glad the little meditation brought you some hope and I’m praying that you move toward clarity with whatever uncertainties you are facing. Shabbat shalom.

A Mindful Jewish Moment for Facing Uncertainty YouTube video by Kerith Spencer-Shapiro

🎥✨ Facing Uncertainty with Mindfulness ✨🎥

This short video offers a mindful moment inspired by a teaching from Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg, a pioneer in Jewish spirituality and mindfulness practices.
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“Our responsibility to our forefathers is only to consult them, not to obey them. Our responsibility to our descendants is only to impart our most cherished experiences to them, but not to command them.”

-Mordecai Kaplan

Today's #JewishBookMonth pick: WOMEN'S TORAH COMMENTARY (which has been a real Shekhinah-send for many of us and now available via Sefaria!)

הֲרֵינִי מְקַבֵּל עָלַי | A kavvanah to love your fellow as yourself, before prayer (ca. 1572) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ A crucial intention to align one's davvenen practice with the command to love one's fellow as oneself per Leviticus 19:18, as recorded in Minhagei ha-Arizal–Petura d’Abba, p.3b by Ḥayyim Vital. . . .

הֲרֵינִי מְקַבֵּל עָלַי | A kavvanah to love your fellow as yourself, before prayer (ca. 1572) opensiddur.org?p=18441

🌐 Human Rights Day (December 10th) This is an archive of prayers composed for, or relevant to, the International Human Rights Day, honoring the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Un...

Resources shared for 🌐 Human Rights Day (December 10th) opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...

This really speaks to a journey I've been on over the last year. Beautiful teachings, and the magic of Jewish learning, touching something so relevant to today from our past. Sorry I missed it. I hope I make it to Rabbi Leah teaching next week

"Just Walk Beside Me" (לֵךְ פָּשׁוּט לְצִדִּי | امشي بجانبي | נאָר גיין לעבן מיר), lines from an unknown author circulating in 1970; Jewish adaptation with translations in Aramaic, Hebrew, Yiddish, an... Variations of the original three lines culminating with "...walk beside me..." first appear in high school yearbooks beginning in 1970. The earliest recorded mention we could find was in The Northern ...

“Just Walk Beside Me” (לֵךְ פָּשׁוּט לְצִדִּי | امشي بجانبي | נאָר גיין לעבן מיר), lines from an unknown author circulating in 1970; Jewish adaptation with translations in Aramaic, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Arabic opensiddur.org?p=53418

James Crews AWE It's a shiver that climbs the trellis of the spine, each tingle a bright white morning glory breaking into blossom beneath the skin. It can happen anywhere, anytime, even finding this sleeve of ice worn by a branch all morning, now fallen on a bed of snow. You can choose to pause, pick it up, hold the cold thing in your hand or not. Few tell us that wonder and awe are decisions we make daily, hourly, minute by minute in the tiny offices of the heart-tilting the head to look up at every tree turned into a chandelier by light striking ice in just the right way,

Morning poem #Awe” by James Crews is gorgeous. Take a moment to breathe it in - and may it inspire all of us find these tiny bits of awe today. #poetry

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Join me and the Institute for Jewish Spirituality for online meditation on 12/18 9:30am Pacific. Register for free here: www.jewishspirituality.org/get-started/...
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Mazal tov! Where is it available?

Thanks to #JewishwomenofLA for the shout out! And Shabbat shalom, friends. ✡️🧿🪬
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How My Kippah Affirms My Trans Identity | Jewish Women's Archive I feel most sure of my gender identity and presentation when it melds with my Jewish cultural identity.

"I feel most sure of my gender identity and presentation when it melds with my Jewish cultural identity."

Beloved Of The Soul (Yedid Nefesh) New modern and often personal Jewish tefillah and kavanot (prayers and intentions) written by writer/performer and rabbinic student, Trisha Arlin.

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תְּפִלָּה לִפְנֵי מַסַּע רִפּוּי | A Prayer Before Seeking Healing in a Psychedelic Journey, by Rabbi Zac Kamenetz • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ This "Prayer Before Seeking Healing in a Psychedelic Journey" by Zac Kamenetz was first published by the author to the Jewish Entheogenic Society group on Facebook, 1 December 2024. . . .

תְּפִלָּה לִפְנֵי מַסַּע רִפּוּי | A Prayer Before Seeking Healing in a Psychedelic Journey, by Rabbi Zac Kamenetz opensiddur.org?p=59015

A Mindful Jewish Moment for Cohesion YouTube video by Kerith Spencer-Shapiro

🌿 Take a brief moment in your busy day to breathe, reflect, and reconnect.

👉 let us know how you cultivate cohesion in your life.

#JewishMindfulness #NeoHasidicWisdom #Cohesion #JewishSpirituality

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It’s super niche, but I created a starter pack for people interested in Jewish Spirituality. If anyone knows of people on BlueSky who should be added please let me know. go.bsky.app/8wfKtSr
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Thanks for reposting Suzy! :-)

Thank you, Dee. Shabbat shalom.

Sigd Festival This is an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs for the Sigd festival. Sigd (ሰግድ, ‘Prostration’, Hebrew: סיגד‎, also romanized Sig’d), or Mehlella (Ge’ez: ምህልላ, lit. ‘Supplication’), also Amata...

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A Mindful Jewish Moment for Cohesion YouTube video by Kerith Spencer-Shapiro

🌟 Take a 90-second mindful pause with me. This meditation, inspired by neo-Hasidic teachings, explores cohesion—finding harmony in life’s complexity. Reconnect, reflect, and embrace wholeness. 👉 Discover how mindfulness can bring balance to your day! #JewishMindfulness
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